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Plot Summary:
Based on true events, 16 year-old Jamie falls in with his mother's new boyfriend and his crowd of self-appointed neighborhood watchmen, a relationship that leads to a spree of torture and murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: psychological, disturbing, serious, tense, rough, realistic, dark, controversial, scary, bleak
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The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael (2005)
Plot Summary:
In a small English coastal town, three teenage boys are drawn into a world of temptation and violence. Bored, troubled and excluded, the boys are unable to accept or even recognise moral boundaries. Their actions move inexorably towards a truly shocking act, that will horrify their sleepy community and expose its deepest, hidden fears.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: disturbing, brutal, suspense, tense, suspenseful, controversial, transgressive, devastating, crying
Similar in 82%
Tenderness of the Wolves (1973)
Plot Summary:
Story of a gay serial killer who murders young boys so he can serve them as dinner to his circle of fellow cannibals.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, disturbing, tense, rough, gothic, psychological, controversial, spooky, lgbt cinema, detective
Similar in 81%
Acolytes (2008)
Plot Summary:
Three teens blackmail a serial killer into helping them get rid of a violent bully.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, scary, tense, mumblecore, suspense, surreal, psychological horror, action thriller, realistic
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True History of the Kelly Gang (2019)
Plot Summary:
Set against the badlands of colonial Australia where the English rule with a bloody fist and the Irish endure, Ned Kelly discovers he comes from a line of Irish rebels—an uncompromising army of cross dressing bandits immortalised for terrorising their oppressors back in Ireland. Nurtured by the notorious bushranger, Harry Power and fuelled by the unfair arrest of his mother, Kelly recruits a wild bunch of warriors to plot one of the most audacious attacks of anarchy and rebellion the country has ever seen.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, Western
Country: Australia, UK, France
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: psychological, enigmatic, bleak, tense, art house, cult classic, spaghetti western, expressionism
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The Golden Glove (2019)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer strikes fear in the hearts of residents of Hamburg during the early 1970s.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: bleak, disturbing, controversial, erotic, psychological, atmospheric, brutal, suspense, slasher, devastating
Similar in 90%
Gacy (2003)
Plot Summary:
Based on a true story of serial killer a model citizen, loving father and husband and serial killer John Wayne Gacy, a man with over 30 dead men and boys entombed in the crawl space underneath his house which he shared with his family.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, rough, suspenseful, slasher, scary, suspense, dark, psychological horror, crime thriller
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An American Crime (2007)
Plot Summary:
The true story of suburban housewife Gertrude Baniszewski, who kept a teenage girl locked in the basement of her Indiana home during the 1960s.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: disturbing, harsh, serious, bleak, brutal, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, emotional, sad
Similar in 83%
The Child I Never Was (2002)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer dispassionately discusses the nuts and bolts of his grisly avocation, as well as the youthful traumas which helped to mold him into a psychopath, in this disturbing independent drama from Germany, based on the true story of of Germany's most famous child murderer Juergen Bartsch who, between the ages of 15 and 19, abused, tortured and killed four schoolboys in the Ruhr region of Germany from 1962 to 1966.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 638
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, serious, bleak, art house, realistic, gloomy, crying
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Freeway (1996)
Plot Summary:
Following the arrest of her mother, Ramona, young Vanessa Lutz decides to go in search of her estranged grandmother. On the way, she is given a ride by school counselor Bob Wolverton. During the journey, Lutz begins to realize that Bob is the notorious I-5 Killer and manages to escape by shooting him several times. Wounded but still very much alive, Bob pursues Lutz across the state in this modern retelling of Little Red Riding Hood.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: disturbing, dark comedy, suspenseful, bloody, black comedy, road movie, cult classic, teen, clever, controversial
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Man Bites Dog (1992)
Plot Summary:
The activities of rampaging, indiscriminate serial killer Ben are recorded by a willingly complicit documentary team, who eventually become his accomplices and active participants. Ben provides casual commentary on the nature of his work and arbitrary musings on topics of interest to him, such as music or the conditions of low-income housing, and even goes so far as to introduce the documentary crew to his family. But their reckless indulgences soon get the better of them.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 43000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, dark comedy, black comedy, disturbing, black and white, humorous, controversial, stylized, cult classic, atmospheric
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Antibodies (2005)
Plot Summary:
When a notorious German serial killer is captured after committing some of the most heinous acts against humanity ever imaginable, a farmer and police officer from a sleepy rural community on the outskirts of Berlin is drawn into the case as he searches for the answers to a murder that has shaken his tight-knit community.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, serious, suspenseful, realistic, slasher, brutal, suspense, detective, crime drama
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10 to Midnight (1983)
Plot Summary:
Based on the real-life Richard Speck murders, amoral, nearly psychotic killer Warren Stacey (Gene Davis) is a serial killer who has murdered a number of women; he stabs them while they are naked to minimize leaving any physical evidence. Police detective Leo Kessler (Charles Bronson) is convinced of Stacey’s guilt and, over the objections of his partner, plants evidence to get him behind bars. When Stacey is released on a technicality, he threatens to go after Kessler and his family, leaving Kessler to defend himself against a killer with little help from the police.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: cult classic, grindhouse, slasher, detective, suspenseful, neo noir, suspense, scary, psychological, retro
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El Angel (2018)
Plot Summary:
About a real-life criminal who shocked Argentine society: Carlos Robledo Puch, a merciless teen killer dubbed “The Angel of Death” because of his beatific good looks, who now ranks as the longest-serving prison inmate in Argentine history.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, exciting, captivating, controversial, stylized, aesthetic, homoerotic, queer cinema
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Charlie Says (2018)
Plot Summary:
Three young women were sentenced to death in the infamous Manson murder case, but when the death penalty was lifted, their sentence became life imprisonment. One young graduate student was sent in to teach them - and through her we witness their transformations as they face the reality of their horrific crimes.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, rough, suspense, disturbing, dark, slasher
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The House That Jack Built (2018)
Plot Summary:
A depiction of a serial killer's 12 years' worth of murders and how it shaped his prime intelligence.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 88000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: Denmark, France, Sweden, Germany
Duration: 152 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, bleak, slasher, controversial, surreal, philosophical
Similar in 90%
This Is England (2006)
Plot Summary:
A story about a troubled boy growing up in England, set in 1983. He comes across a few skinheads on his way home from school, after a fight. They become his new best friends even like family. Based on experiences of director Shane Meadows.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 127000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: emotional, political, depressing, stylized, harsh, rough, cult classic, social, tense, sincere
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Dahmer (2002)
Plot Summary:
On February 15, 1992 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer, one of the world's most infamous serial killers, was convicted of 15 counts of murder and sentenced to 937 years in federal prison. This movie is based on events from his life. Certain characters and events are fictional.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, scary, slasher, stylized, rough, suspense, suspenseful, dark, controversial
Similar in 81%
The Iceman (2012)
Plot Summary:
The true story of Richard Kuklinski, the notorious contract killer and family man.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 78000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, brutal, stylized, suspense, intense, realistic, rough, serious, factual
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The Girl Next Door (2007)
Plot Summary:
In a quiet suburban town in the summer of 1958, two recently orphaned sisters are placed in the care of their mentally unstable Aunt Ruth. But Ruth's depraved sense of discipline will soon lead to unspeakable acts of abuse and torture that involve her young sons, the neighborhood children, and one 12-year-old boy whose life will be changed forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, disturbing, bleak, psychological, suspenseful, rough, brutal, depressing, suspense, controversial
Similar in 77%
The Proposition (2005)
Plot Summary:
Set in the Australian outback in the 1880s, the movie follows the series of events following the horrific rape and murder of the Hopkins family, allegedly committed by the infamous Burns brothers gang. Captain Morris Stanley captures Charlie Burns and gives him 9 days to kill his older dangerous psychopathic brother, or else they'll hang his younger mentally slow brother on Christmas Day.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 55000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Western
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: disturbing, bleak, atmospheric, serious, harsh, tense, rough, suspenseful, bloody, intense
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Sleepers (1996)
Plot Summary:
Two gangsters seek revenge on the state jail worker who during their stay at a youth prison sexually abused them. A sensational court hearing takes place to charge him for the crimes.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 234000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 147 min
Plot tags: disturbing, sadistic, harsh, suspenseful, suspense, serious, psychological, brutal, intense, emotional
Similar in 79%
Evilenko (2003)
Plot Summary:
In 1984, in Kiev, the communist teacher Andrej Romanovic Evilenko is dismissed from his position after a pedophilic act against a student. On 15 May 1984, the pedophile Evilenko begins to rape children, and then slashing the victims in pieces and eating them. The magistrate family man Vadim Timurouvic Lesiev is assigned to catch the serial killer and almost eight years later he finally captures the monster that killed fifty-five persons, most of them children and young women. On 22 May 1992, Evilenko goes to the court and on 14 February 1994 he is finally executed.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: slasher, heartbreaking, suspense, atmospheric, surreal, art house, disturbing, scary, psychological, bleak
Similar in 82%
Midnight Express (1978)
Plot Summary:
Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has two opportunities for release: the appeals made by his lawyer, his family, and the American government, or the "Midnight Express".
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 87000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: disturbing, realistic, suspense, depressing, psychological, serious, tense, controversial, grim, bleak
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Monster (2003)
Plot Summary:
Aileen Wuornos is an emotionally scarred highway hooker who shoots a sadistic trick who rapes her and ultimately becomes America's first female serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 159000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: bleak, disturbing, psychological, depressing, emotional, harsh, heartbreaking, sad, rough, captivating
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Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019)
Plot Summary:
A chronicle of the crimes of Ted Bundy, from the perspective of his longtime girlfriend, Elizabeth Kloepfer, who refused to believe the truth about him for years.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 100000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, rough, bleak, suspenseful, psychological thriller, brutal, dark, crime drama, action thriller
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American Psycho (2000)
Plot Summary:
A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous fantasies.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 690000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, psychological thriller, surreal, brutal, stylized, disturbing, twist ending, neo noir, dark, mind twisting
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Black Mass (2015)
Plot Summary:
The true story of Whitey Bulger, the brother of a state senator and the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who became an FBI informant to take down a Mafia family invading his turf.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 190000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: suspense, factual, brutal, intense, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, serious, independent film, stylized
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Goodfellas (1990)
Plot Summary:
The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 12000000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: rough, suspense, realistic, epic, brutal, cult classic, hood, suspenseful, neo noir, fast paced
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Mr. Brooks (2007)
Plot Summary:
A psychological thriller about a man who is sometimes controlled by his murder-and-mayhem-loving alter ego.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 155000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, tense, psychological thriller, twist ending, serious, melancholic, intense, detective, enigmatic
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Se7en (1995)
Plot Summary:
Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the "seven deadly sins" in this dark and haunting film that takes viewers from the tortured remains of one victim to the next. The seasoned Det. Sommerset researches each sin in an effort to get inside the killer's mind, while his novice partner, Mills, scoffs at his efforts to unravel the case.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 18000000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, detective, suspenseful, disturbing, neo noir, suspense, scary, tense, bad ending, atmospheric